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The Waning Strategy Phenomenon: Definition and Assessment Methodology

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The article studies the phenomenon of the “waning” (loss of significance and relevance) of regional and municipal strategic documents in Russia. Analysis of the news background shows that developed strategic planning documents are static, “sluggish,” and unable to respond to rapid changes in the socioeconomic, political, cultural situation in society (e.g., in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic). This leads to rapid “semantic degradation” of strategic documents, to the loss of their relation with current socioeconomic challenges and problems. It was revealed that the duration of the waning period is different both for regions, municipalities, individual cities, and oblasts, depending on local conditions. According to our estimates, a regional strategy completely wanes in 2 or 3 years; a municipal strategy, in 1.5 years. In fact, this period is equal to the time of development of the strategies themselves.

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  1. In the article, the territory of Russia is considered within the boundaries stated in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, adopted by popular vote on December 12, 1993, with changes approved during an all-Russian vote of July 1, 2020.

  2. Law of Voronezh oblast no. 168-03 of December 20, 2018, On the Strategy for Social and Economic Development of Voronezh Oblast for the Period up to 2035.

  3. Strategy for Socioeconomic Development of Krasnodar Krai until 2030. Law of Krasnodar krai no. 3930-K3 of December 21, 2018.

  4. Order of the Administration of Kursk oblast On the Strategy for Socioeconomic Development of Kursk Oblast for the Period up to 2030.

  5. Strategy for Socioeconomic Development of Ryazan oblast for the Period up to 2030. Approved by Decree of the Government of Ryazan oblast 2018 no. 418 of December 25.

  6. Strategy for Socioeconomic Development of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug until 2030. Approved by Order of the Government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug no. 339-rp on March 22, 2013, no. 101-rp.

  7. Yekaterinburg City Duma. Decision of June 10, 2003, no. 40/6 On the Strategic Plan for the Development of Yekaterinburg (amended as of May 25, 2018).

  8. The Strategy for the Socioeconomic Development of the City of Kursk for 2019–2030 was approved by decision of the Kursk City Assembly no. 151-6-OS of November 19, 2019.

  9. Decision of the Duma of the urban okrug of Tolyatti no. 131 of January 25, 2019, On the Strategy for the Socioeconomic Development of the Urban Okrug of Tolyatti for the Period until 2030.

  10. The Strategy for the Socioeconomic Development of the City of Ufa until 2030 was approved by the decision of the Council of the Urban Okrug of the City of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan no. 35/2 of December 19, 2018.

  11. Simferopol City Council of the Republic of Crimea. Decision no. 1462 of December 19, 2017, On the Strategy of Socioeconomic Development of the Municipality of the Urban Okrug of Simferopol of the Republic of Crimea for the Period up to 2030.

  12. For more detail see: https://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/stadtforum/; https://www.urbancatalyst.de/de/stadtforum-berlin.html.

  13. Dead zone. In Russia a Ghetto Was Created for Millions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9ZZZlWUGw.

  14. Instructions of the Federal Project Modernization of Passenger Transport in Urban Agglomerations. Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. https://mmtrans.gov.ru/documents/8/11526?type=.

  15. Plans to build a landfill near this railway station in Arkhangelsk oblast called environmental protest of the population.

  16. Plans to develop limestone deposits on Mount Kushtau triggered protests by residents in the Republic of Bashkortostan.

  17. The Interim Head of Kursk oblast presented the People’s Strategy for Development of the Region until 2024, TASS, June 27, 2019. https://tass.ru/obschestvo/6600049.

  18. One NYC 2050: Building a Strong and Fair City. http://1w3f31pzvdm485dou3dppkcq.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0neNYC-2050-Full-Report-1.3.pdf.

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  1. Center for Regional Development Strategies, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 119571, Moscow, Russia

    V. V. Akimova, A. A. Voloshinskaya & V. M. Komarov

  2. Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Akimova, V.V., Voloshinskaya, A.A. & Komarov, V.M. The Waning Strategy Phenomenon: Definition and Assessment Methodology. Reg. Res. Russ. 13, 458–469 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970523700855

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